Henry Zeffman
speaker
1,893 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Henry Zeffman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 5.
Appearances
But look, yes, I think it sounds like Dan Jarvis, who replaced John Healey, and actually quite a lot of Labour MPs were surprised that he took that job, that anyone took that job in those circumstances, does seem to have got a bit more money.
The other thing that we understand is that he seems to have tweaked the contents of the defence investment plan.
a bit more towards weapons of the future, a bit more towards those drones rather than to, you know, other perhaps more traditional items of defence spending.
Look, and it's one of the many things that we haven't heard Andy Burnham speak that much about.
understandably, given that he has been running a local by-election campaign for the last several weeks and running a city combined authority in Greater Manchester before that, though Victoria, among others, managed to tempt Andy Burnham slightly onto national issues during that by-election campaign.
But, look, I think there are a lot of unanswered questions about the extent to which he believes defence spending needs to rise, the things that he might be willing to spend less on in order to spend more on defence.
And perhaps we'll learn a little more from Andy Burnham's first big national political intervention for a long time.
Tomorrow, when he gives a speech, essentially his first speech as presumptive prime minister, which is going to focus on the economy, though I think it's more about the economy and regional growth and devolution than it is about issues like this.
But let's see.
Yeah.
And there's a near total political consensus within the Labour Party on how they should approach Ukraine.
So I would not expect any deviation from Ukraine.
Andy Burnham and whoever is his foreign secretary.
Still rumours, by the way, as we, I think, first brought newscasters this time last week, that that could be Lord David Miliband, as he would become in order to become foreign secretary.
We must talk about this.
But look, I would expect complete continuity, but continuity of...
ambition to support Ukraine as much as the government can doesn't necessarily tell us anything about the detail of what Andy Burnham's Chancellor would be willing to commit when there are all sorts of domestic priorities as well.
There are people I've been speaking to all week who think not only could that happen, but it's quite plausible.
But there is another concern that people, including allies of Andy Burnham, I mean, everyone in the Labour Party now sees themselves as an ally of Andy Burnham, but actual allies of Andy Burnham express, which is, hang on a second.
Andy Burnham is a man, obviously.
Showing 1221–1240 of 1,893 · page 62 of 95
← Previous
Next →